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Is Flaunt Magazine the most condecending publication out there? (with image, tweets)

If anyone actually manages to buy Flaunt Magazine (especially in the UK), please let me know. Most folks I know are interested in it for the Hiddleston interview.

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2 months ago · 9 notes

#tom hiddleston

gofuckyourselftomhiddleston:

The many hairstyles of Tom Hiddleston

You know what’s funny to imagine?

Tom sitting in a salon getting his hair colored, wearing a cape and reading a ladies magazine while his color processes.

As with anyone who changes hair colour a lot, I wonder if he remembers what his natural hair colour looks like.

I know I don’t remember what mine looks like - I’d just about got to having natural dark coloured hair in my mental image of myself after being out of university for 5 years and forced into normal hair for my job… but now? Now I can’t definitively picture what my hair looks like, since it’s been black/pink, black/purple, green/pink and blue in the last year.

8 months ago · 7,247 notes · Source · Reblogged from gofuckyourselftomhiddleston

The Odyssey. It gets me every time. Odysseus spends ten years in Troy, like everyone else. But unlike everyone else, it takes him a further ten years to get home. His resolve and determination is tested beyond the limits of imagination by the gods’ bitter twists of fate: he is tempted by the Sirens, held captive by Calypso, he is dared to sails past the six-headed monster Scylla and the whirlpool Charybdis, his men are drugged and turned into pigs by a witch called Circe, and he has get past the Cyclops. And after all that he returns to his homeland of Ithaca and his wife Penelope, who after twenty years, is still waiting for him, still faithful, refusing the courtly attention of every suitor in the land, and his son Telemachus waits too, champing at the bit to restore order. And finally father and son join forces and quell the rebellion. It’s the most romantic, epic, heroic myth of all time.

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Tom Hiddleston, on his favourite ancient myth
Katie Antoniou interviews Tom Hiddleston | Blog | Run Riot

Which reminds me, that I need to get around to reading the Odyssey. I studied the Aeneid at school in Latin and in English (I took both Latin and Classical Civilisations so managed to cover the same stuff in both which made it far more interesting and a lot easier to do well in). And… Aeneus, the hero, is a bit of an ass. Everything I know about Odysseus leads me to believe he is less of an ass.

Which, of course, is the most important thing.

(via herdivineshadow)

Actually reading the Odyssey now (I’m doing the Greek & Roman Mythology course on Coursera, alongside my Masters and a billion other things).

Odysseus IS less of an ass. However, he doesn’t half put it about. Aeneas didn’t hop into quite so many ladies beds. Possibly because he was an ass. BUT YOU KNOW.

At least Odysseus *sounds* more attractive. Which, of course, is the important thing. Or the other important thing.

8 months ago · 27 notes · Source · Reblogged from hershad0w

Loki is such a great, larger-than-life character. He has so many dimensions. He is motivated by jealousy, ambition, pride, vanity, arrogance and greed – and yet he gets to have a lot of fun because of his predisposition towards mischief. On one level, he is this grandiose agent of chaos. He’s a cackling villain standing on rooftops, laughing at the sky. But on another level, he’s a lost child and a brother who was always the second string because he grew up in the shadow of Thor. He’s a rejected, abandoned son who has no place in the universe, so all his destructive anger is motivated by a lack of self-esteem. I don’t think he even knows it, but he’s desperately trying to give himself a purpose.

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Tom Hiddleston

Avengers Assemble: Tom Hiddleston Interview | SFX

There are a lot of people with a great deal of Avengers feels and Loki feels out there, but I suspect Hiddleston has so many Loki feels, that if he had anymore he’d collapse into a black hole of feels.

9 months ago · 40 notes · Source

Star Wars or Star Trek? [x]

9 months ago · 3,683 notes · Source · Reblogged from spinwhirlpin

The Odyssey. It gets me every time. Odysseus spends ten years in Troy, like everyone else. But unlike everyone else, it takes him a further ten years to get home. His resolve and determination is tested beyond the limits of imagination by the gods’ bitter twists of fate: he is tempted by the Sirens, held captive by Calypso, he is dared to sails past the six-headed monster Scylla and the whirlpool Charybdis, his men are drugged and turned into pigs by a witch called Circe, and he has get past the Cyclops. And after all that he returns to his homeland of Ithaca and his wife Penelope, who after twenty years, is still waiting for him, still faithful, refusing the courtly attention of every suitor in the land, and his son Telemachus waits too, champing at the bit to restore order. And finally father and son join forces and quell the rebellion. It’s the most romantic, epic, heroic myth of all time.

—

Tom Hiddleston, on his favourite ancient myth
Katie Antoniou interviews Tom Hiddleston | Blog | Run Riot

Which reminds me, that I need to get around to reading the Odyssey. I studied the Aeneid at school in Latin and in English (I took both Latin and Classical Civilisations so managed to cover the same stuff in both which made it far more interesting and a lot easier to do well in). And… Aeneus, the hero, is a bit of an ass. Everything I know about Odysseus leads me to believe he is less of an ass.

Which, of course, is the most important thing.

10 months ago · 27 notes · Source